The World: Shattering Images

In Australia's elections later this year, one issue that may affect the
outcome is 30 years old. The problem facing Liberal Prime Minister
William McMahon, who has a tough fight ahead to stay in office, is how
to handle the country's World War II archives, which are supposed to
stay sealed until 1990.

If rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the
Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed
of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie
soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint
in order to get...